H.R. PUFNSTUF, the 1960s psychedelic puppet show from Sid & Marty Krofft

...set on an island ruled by a bulbous dragon with a Dixie accent, a novelty-song-bawling villainess named Witchiepoo, a pubescent hero whose magic flute keeps imploring him "Blow me, Jimmy!", and a crooning female frog in cabaret tails mamed Judy (the show debuted about ten weeks after Garland's OD).

My meds have feeling today like the addled owl Dr Blinky.

http://www.70slivekidvid.com/puff/puffowl1.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._R._Pufnstuf

aired on Saturday mornings, btw... i had no idea there were only 17 episodes.

Always think of this Mr. Show sketch when someone mentions this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHqcNj0Pv6c

This series was shown in the UK in the 70s. I've heard a film soundtrack (unless it's just songs from the TV series) with Cass Elliott singing a song or two and Jack Wild murdering the rest.

Cass was in the 1970 feature film spinoff Pufnstuf, not the series.

was vaguely aware of these guys throughout childhood but remember Land of the Lost better, not sure I ever actually saw any HR Pufnstuff airing on TV. Mr. Show sketch otm nonetheless.

oh so this is where the band Witchypoo stole their name from

I also remember LotL and not this.

may have seen it packaged w this lol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-hKox1uxPY

i need to point out that this show's original run was in THE LAST 3 MONTHS OF THE '60s! it was Woodstock/Altamont for 4- to 8-year-olds.

Just before my time, too. Saw it only a handful of times in my childhood (undoubtedly a factor of the limited run, not enough material to syndicate), but it was often mentioned by friends who'd grown up with American TV.

whatever network had it -- NBC, I think -- reran it into the ground for 4 years, tho.

Watched this and all the Krofft stuff relentlessly as a kid on syndicated TV. (WUAB Ch. 43 in Cleveland mostly.) Saw the Pufnstuf movie at a Saturday matinee at the AAFES base theater in Darmstadt, Germany in 1977, maybe?

I remember they used to play this back on a bank of tv sets in the Liverpool club Planet X in the late 80s/early 90s. THink I must remember seeing it on tv as a child too.

my local head shop growing up was called Puff'n'Stuff.

and as crazy as HR is, Lidsville is the Cuckoo-Kookiest

I only ever saw this when I was backpacking in australia for a year. It's oddness suited the unheimlich feeling I had from livings in another country.

It's revelatory once you realize that the McDonaldland characters were based on this bunch (or rather directly ripped off, as is all the more obvious in the character designs before legal action was taken against McDonald's).

http://placeitonluckydan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/mcdonaldland.jpg

i need to point out that this show's original run was in THE LAST 3 MONTHS OF THE '60s! it was Woodstock/Altamont for 4- to 8-year-olds.